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A wonderful climate, incredibly rich heritage, great food, friendly people, beautiful islands, cosmopolitan cities… it’s easy to see why Greece has been such a popular holiday destination for so long. With powerful cities like Athens and stunning islands such as Santorini and Kos, there’s truly something for everyone in this marvellous Mediterranean country.

Which location did you visit?

Unfortunately, some tourists visiting Greece have had their dream holiday turned upside-down by a sudden illness or unforeseen accident. While they should have spent their time relaxing on sun-kissed beaches or exploring ancient ruins, they ended up spending their long-awaited holiday waiting anxiously in foreign hospitals and negotiating with insurers to try to cover costly medical bills.

Lacerations caused by broken or loose tiles around the hotel swimming pool

Water sports accidents including jet skiing, paragliding, water skiing and scuba diving

Holiday illnesses in Greece are generally caused by poorly prepared food which can cause food poisoning. Serious cases can be caused by:

Campylobacter

Cryptosporidium

E. coli

Salmonella

Serious illnesses include:

Dysentery

Gastroenteritis

Giardiasis

Legionnaires Disease

Amoebiasis

Cholera

If you’ve been involved in an accident abroad, or fallen ill while on holiday in Greece, we can help. Our team of specialist personal injury solicitors can help you make a holiday compensation claim which could see whoever is responsible for your illness or injury held to account.

We have a 95% success rate in personal injury cases and have successfully claimed over £200,000,000 in the last ten years alone. With over thirty years of experience in personal injury compensation, our specialist solicitors can help you secure the compensation you deserve.

Here’s how Your Legal Friend can help you:

No win, no fee - guaranteed

95% success rate in personal injury claims

Over £200,000,000 successfully won in the last ten years alone

Help and support you with your claim against the travel company or carrier

30 years’ experience in personal injury compensation

Talk to us today

For an informal, confidential chat with one of our expert personal injury solicitors about making a claim, call us now on 0808 301 8778 (call free from landlines and mobiles). Or just complete the 'Start a new claim’ option on the right and we'll call you straight back.

While Greece might have remained an enduringly popular holiday destination for decades, there are tourists who have had nightmarish experienced in the country, through no fault of their own. Slips, trips and falls, food poisoning and a multitude of other accidents can quickly ruin a holiday to Greece, leaving holidaymakers out of pocket and often in serious pain.

Infections and travel bugs – salmonella, food poisoning, E.coli

One of the most common causes of illness abroad is food poisoning - not just Greece, but in holiday hotspots across the world. Food poisoning can be painful and debilitating, leaving tourists resting up in their hotels rather than enjoying their holiday as they should be.

Food poisoning and other illnesses like salmonella and E.coli can occur as a result of poor hygiene practices, undercooked food or re-heated dishes such as those found in buffet-style restaurants.

Slips and trips

Slips and trips can occur at any time, and they’re incredibly dangerous. While some tourists might get away with a sprained ankle or a bruise, others suffer fractures or broken bones which can cut short their holiday and leave them paying expensive medical bills.

Whether you fall from an unsafe balcony, trip over an exposed wire in your hotel or slip on a poorly marked wet floor, we could help you make a claim for personal injury compensation.

Excursions, accidents in airports, transfers, coach trips

Unfortunately, the fairly poor health and safety standards in Greece mean that tourists embarking on excursions or coach trips can end up involved in accidents through no fault of their own. Road traffic accidents are also common on the cramped and chaotic roads, while accidents in airports are also on the rise.

Here’s how Your Legal Friend can help you:

Help and support you with your claim against the travel company or carrier

No win, no fee - guaranteed

95% success rate in personal injury claims

Over £200,000,000 successfully won in the last ten years alone

30 years’ experience in personal injury compensation

Talk to us today

For an informal, confidential chat with one of our expert personal injury solicitors about making a claim, call us now on 0808 278 7431 (call free from landlines and mobiles). Or just complete the 'Start a new claim’ option on the right and we'll call you straight back.

Alison Saul, Director of Personal Injury leads our Personal Injury and Road Accident teams. A fully qualified solicitor with over 15 years of experience and expertise, Alison is dedicated to achieving the highest levels of compensation for her clients as well as ensuring high quality client care.

Alison is assisted by her team managers, Philip Waters Lee Quinn, Jenna Hargreaves, and Kathryn Langton. Philip, Lee, and Jenna lead legal teams focussing on Road Traffic Accident cases while Kathyrn leads our Personal Injury team. Together they have a wealth of experience in personal injury compensation.

There are many people injured in accidents each year through no fault of their own and the circumstances will be difference in each instance. Our team has extensive experience of successfully managing a wide range of personal injury claims, so we can help you secure the maximim compensation you deserve.

Alison Saul,Director of Personal Injury

Philip, a qualified solicitor, has over 18 years’ experience in personal injury compensation. Having previously worked for a large insurance company, he has extensive insights in how to engage effectively with insurers to achieve the level of compensation our clients deserve. Philip deals with cases of high value, complex cases, and recently secured £1.6 million in compensation for one of his clients who suffered catastrophic injuries in a road accident.

Lee has over 15 years’ specialist experience in Personal Injury claims and also manages a wide variety of high value, complex cases. Lee has extensive experience of working with insurance companies, acting for both claimants and defendants, and so understands how to secure the highest levels of compensation for the victims of road traffic accidents.

Jenna is a qualified solicitor and has studied to become a barrister. Jenna leads the internal reviews of our case management processes to ensure excellent, efficient case handling and high levels of client satisfaction.

Kathryn, also a qualiied solicitor, specialises in accidents at work, public liability and accidents abroad. Kathryn deals with a wide variety of cases, often including accidents that involve serious, complex injuries.

Talk to us today

For an informal, confidential chat with one of our expert personal injury solicitors about making a claim, call us now on 0808 149 4227 (call free from landlines and mobiles). Or just complete the 'Start a new claim’ option on the right and we'll call you straight back.

For most people, a compensation claim isn’t an everyday occurrence so we thought it would be helpful to explain how we manage your claim and the steps that we both need to go through.

Step 1 - Obtaining a full description of your accident or illness

We need to understand as much as possible about your accident or illness – exactly how it happened or what caused you to be ill and why, the injuries you suffered, what happened immediately afterwards and how your life has been affected as a result.

Step 2 - Obtaining your medical records

We will ask your GP and hospital for your full medical records so that we can establish the extent of your injuries or illness, the treatment you received, and how long it will take you to recover. If your treatment was carried out abroad, we can obtain and, if need be, translate those records.

Step 3 - Contacting the company responsible for your accident or illness

Once we have decided who is responsible for your accident or illness, we will inform them that you intend to claim compensation and send them the details you have provided. We will let you know their response and, if they dispute the case, we will ask you to provide your comments on their response.

Step 4 - Arranging your medical assessment

We will arrange for an independent clinician to evaluate the extent of your illness or injuries and whether they will affect your ability to work in the short or long term. In holiday illness claims, it may sometimes be possible to obtain a “desktop” report that can be done based on your witness statement and any medical records so that you don’t have to go for a medical examination.

Step 5 - Collating details of your financial loss

In addition to compensation for your injuries or illness, you can claim for another other expenses you have incurred as a result, including lost earnings, expenses travelling to medical appointments, and the cost of care and help with everyday tasks.

Step 6 - Providing you with our valuation of your losses

Once we have received all your medical reports, we can provide a valuation for your illness, injuries and associated losses. We will send this to you along with your medical report. You then need to complete and sign the medical slip and schedule of losses and return them to us.

Step 7 - Sending your valuation to the other party's insurer

Once we have received your signed medical slip and schedule of losses, we send these to the defendant’s insurer and ask for their best offer to settle the case. Often the insurance company takes 4 – 6 weeks to get back to us.

Step 8 - Negotiating the maximum settlement possible

We work hard to achieve the maximum possible settlement for your case, which can take some time to negotiate. So we text and email you to keep you up to date with our progress.

Step 9 - Issuing Court proceedings

If the defendant’s insurer refuses to make a realistic offer, then we issue Court proceedings for a hearing. It is very unlikely that you need to attend this hearing, so there’s no need to worry about it.

Step 10 - Sending you your compensation payment

Once we receive your compensation payment from the defendant’s insurer, we let you know. Most important of all, we send you your compensation payment straight away!

How long does a claim take?

Because the circumstances surrounding every claim and their effects are different, it’s very difficult to give a definitive answer on how long it takes to settle a claim. Often it depends on how quickly our clients provide us with essential information, how quickly we can get medical records and assessments, and whether the insurance companies are willing to provide realistic offers to settle the claims.

Whilst we aim to settle your claim as quickly as possible, we also want to ensure we secure the maximum compensation for you. This often means we have to do some hard negotiation with the defendants – which takes extra time. Our aim is to balance progressing the claim as fast as possible with getting you the maximum settlement.

We realise that you’ll be keen to know about the progress of your claim so we will send you regular emails and texts to keep you up to date, and also to remind you if there is any information we’re waiting for from you.

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